#wisdom

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. ↗

— Jenny Shipley

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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Smiles

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It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. ↗

— Logan P. Smith

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It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ↗

— John Steinbeck

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Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ↗

— T.S. Eliot

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A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. ↗

— Ezra Stiles

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